On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Well, the answer is a big different...
>
> If you run this script with en_US encoding and NOT utf8 - you would see the
> missing speed. Apparently there's a bug with grep when it comes to utf8
> handling (redhat and Alan confirmed that)..
>
> So, if you'rerunning lots of scripts on RH 8.0, maybe you should add a simple
> en_US encoding to the beginning of your script...

Actually: 'en_US' is not guaranteed to exist. And is not guaranteed not to
be UTF-8. 'C' will always be there.  it is pure ascii. (And it is 4
letters shorter, which is why I have not suggested 'POSIX' ;-) )

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@;technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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